Jean-Baptiste Alliette

"Etteilla", the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist who was the first to popularise tarot divination to a wide audience (1785),^[1] and therefore the first professional tarot occultist known to history who made his living by card divination.^[2] Etteilla published his ideas of the correspondences between the tarot, astrology, and the four classical elements and four humors, and was the first to issue a revised tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes (1791).^[3]